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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Hiatus: Exams calling

Will be back with big posts and toy reviews!

Religious fundamentalism under a moral microscope

Sneaky sneaky.
So I find here an op-ed by someone who’s supposed to be “the dean of postgraduate studies and lecturer in historical and systematic theology at Trinity Theological College”. I don’t know about you, but the word ‘theology’ should set off alarm bells.
So he says:
Moral confusion sometimes comes about because of the jargon used in [...]

I am depressed. Am I the only libertarian from Singapore?

I’ve been having a debate of sorts with this young lady over here (I can’t believe the day I would actually call someone else “young lady”… oh my god I’m old!), and the first thing that springs to mind about Gayle Goh is that she is intelligent, well-read, articulate… and left-wing.
It’s not just her I [...]

The incompetence of your bureaucrats undermines good economic policy

This submission on Tomorrow.sg points to a post from Gayle Goh a National Education dialogue in which, if the blog post is accurate, a certain bureaucrat displays utter incompetence, both in public relations terms and in terms of explaining economic policy.
“We have to be realistic. There is a limit to how much re-training we [...]

Your sophistication stops at calibrated coercion

For all their supposed sophistication at managing dissent and controlling the information available to the electorate [here and here], this election has revealed a glaring weakness in the ruling party’s capabilities.
They simply don’t know when to keep their mouths shut.
In particular the one most guilty would be this certain man who’s title is named after [...]